[ad_1] CNN — The Uvalde school board unanimously accepted the retirement of superintendent Hal Harrell on Wednesday, nearly five months after one of the deadliest mass school shootings in US history at an elementary school in the Texas district. Harrell had announced last week he’d step aside amid continued backlash …
Read More »Trump appears for deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
[ad_1] CNN — Former President Donald Trump appeared Wednesday for a deposition as part of the defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Trump’s testimony saying the former President had already taken steps to delay the case and …
Read More »Missouri residents say police dismissed reports of missing Black women, but a month later a woman says she was kidnapped and believes there were other victims
[ad_1] CNN — Weeks after residents of a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood said they complained to police that Black women were missing, authorities are facing community backlash after a Black woman says a White man held her captive. A 22-year-old woman, identified by police in court in a probable cause …
Read More »Charges filed against Wesley Brownlee, the suspect in series of killings in Stockton
[ad_1] Authorities in California on Saturday arrested a man in connection with a series of killings that claimed the lives of six people. The suspect, Wesley Brownlee, 43, was being followed by a police surveillance team who determined around 2 a.m. on Saturday he was “out hunting” and “on a mission to …
Read More »Kevin Spacey finishes testifying in civil sexual misconduct trial
[ad_1] CNN — After about five hours on the witness stand, Kevin Spacey finished testifying in his defense in a sexual misconduct trial, stemming from allegations made by actor Anthony Rapp. Rapp, best known for his role in “Star Trek: Discovery,” claims that in 1986, Spacey, then 26, invited Rapp, …
Read More »Robert Solis, who killed trailblazing Texas sheriff’s deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, is convicted of capital murder
[ad_1] CNN — The man who gunned down the Houston area’s beloved first Sikh sheriff’s deputy could face the death penalty after he was convicted Monday of capital murder. It took jurors less than an hour to convict Robert Solis for the 2019 death of Sandeep Dhaliwal. Prosecutors are seeking …
Read More »Gujarat, India: Bilkis Bano’s rapists are now free, and she’s in hiding
[ad_1] New Delhi CNN — Standing in a row outside the gates of Godhra remand center in Gujarat, western India, the 11 middle-aged men could have been mistaken for visiting dignitaries receiving sweets and blessings from local admirers. In reality, they were part of a 2002 Hindu mob who had …
Read More »From protester to fighter: Fleeing Iran’s brutal crackdown to take up arms over the border
[ad_1] Iraqi Kurdistan CNN — A teenage dissident trailed behind a group of smugglers in the borderlands of western Iran. For three days, Rezan trekked a rocky mountain range and walked through minefields along a winding path forged by seasoned smugglers to circumnavigate the country’s heavily armed Revolutionary Guards. It …
Read More »‘She Said’ debuts at New York Film Festival
[ad_1] CNN — “She Said,” based on the book on the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, made its premiere at the 2022 New York Film Festival on Oct. 13. The world premiere of the film took place five years after reporting on the allegations against Weinstein …
Read More »Hong Kong protester allegedly beaten at Chinese consulate in Manchester
[ad_1] Hong Kong CNN — Activists and lawmakers in the United Kingdom are demanding an investigation after a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was allegedly beaten on the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. A pro-democracy group called Hong Kong Indigenous Defence Force had staged a protest outside the consulate …
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